As history tells it, Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus was tending to his farm as a private citizen when a delegation from Rome came to tell him the Republic was under siege and their army was nearing defeat.
Cincinnatus put down his plow and headed from country to city, where he was appointed dictator. He immediately ordered the closure of businesses and placed all men of military age under his direct supervision.
An important position at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) was vacant and the country’s pandemic early warning system was understaffed when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, an independent panel has found.
The final report on what went wrong at that key moment with the Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN) — a multilingual monitoring system that scours the internet for reports of infectious diseases — was released today.
The report says that, among other things, surveillance was not well co-ordinated in the four years leading up to the arrival of the novel coronavirus, a problem the report says was partly due to the fact that a key position — chief health surveillance officer — had been left vacant since 2017 and was due to be eliminated.
Ontario is reporting just over 100 new COVID-19 cases today and no new deaths.
Officials logged 114 new infections today, down from 166 on Sunday and 179 on Saturday.
Canada to have 55 million COVID-19 vaccine shots by week’s end
Pure propaganda and the only show playing across the news board. We still haven’t caught up to the USA
Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, suggested Sunday that municipalities should begin issuing COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Ontario reports lowest daily COVID-19 case count since Sept. 9
Ontario is reporting fewer than 200 new COVID-19 cases for the third consecutive day and the lowest single-day total since early September.
Provincial health officials logged 166 new COVID-19 infections today, down from 179 on Saturday and 183 on Friday.
Only one shot won’t prevent fourth wave, say experts
Ontario has not reached the level of vaccination needed to protect itself from COVID-19 variants and a potential fourth wave, Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) CEO Doris Grinspun says.
The summer months and their outside activities work against the spread of the virus, she said.
The Biden administration has announced its plan to go door-to-door and talk to unvaccinated people, but one Republican representative is terrified of what that can mean for the future.
Her comments come on the heels of a G20 meeting in Venice, where the leaders of the 20 most powerful economies in the world agreed that global economic recovery is at risk as a result of the rise of new COVID-19 variants — a risk that is heightened by some nations’ poor access to vaccines.
Ontario reports 179 new COVID-19 cases and 8 more deaths
Ontario is reporting fewer than 200 new COVID-19 cases and eight more deaths on Saturday.
Provincial health officials logged 179 new coronavirus cases, down from 183 on Friday and 209 a week ago.
Majority of Canadians think COVID-19 U.S. border restrictions should lift this year: Nanos
OTTAWA — A majority of Canadians are in favour of lifting all pandemic-prompted travel restrictions at the Canada-U.S. border this year, according to a new survey from Nanos Research.
As conversations continue about when the federal government will lift certain border measures like mandatory testing, quarantines, and limits on who can cross into Canada for non-essential reasons, new data indicates that most people will be ready for a return to pre-pandemic rules by the end of 2021.
Twenty-four U.S. states have seen an uptick of at least 10% in COVID-19 cases over the past week, Johns Hopkins University data shows, as health experts and the federal government keep pressing for more people to get vaccinated.
Well of course it’s worse, the Chicoms have had more time to refine it.
Politicians are well-known for speaking out of both sides of their mouths.
At no time did we see more of that behaviour than during the past 16 months of the COVID-19 pandemic when we expected our politicians to show some modicum of leadership.
Sadly, for the most part, that leadership has been lacking in so many areas.
A majority of people, now including a slim majority of Democrats too, believe the coronavirus most likely originated in a Wuhan laboratory rather than from nature, a new poll shows, indicating a shift in public opinion since early in the pandemic as China continues to block a truly independent and thorough inquiry into COVID-19’s origins.
The new poll from Harvard University and Politico found that 52% of people in the United States, including 59% of Republicans and 52% of Democrats, believe the coronavirus emerged from a Wuhan lab, while just 28% of adults say COVID-19 began with an infected animal.
Step 3 of Ontario’s reopening plan will begin on July 16, five days earlier than expected, sources tell 680 NEWS.
Indoor dining will be allowed to reopen with no capacity limits, just distancing between tables while gyms, movie theatres, museums and zoos will be at 50 per cent capacity.
Ontario reports 183 new COVID-19 cases; 7-day average falls below 200
Ontario reported 183 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday and nine additional deaths Friday, as the seven-day rolling average of new cases fell below 200 for the first time since early Sept. 2020.
The seven-day rolling average of new cases fell to 192, from 206 on Thursday.
Pfizer developing booster shot to combat COVID-19 Delta variant
Pfizer and BioNTech said Thursday they are developing a COVID-19 booster shot to target the highly transmissible Delta variant.
In an email to Global News, the companies confirmed that they have seen “encouraging data in the ongoing booster trial” of the vaccine that suggests a third shot of the two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has the capacity to offer the “highest levels” of protection against known COVID-19 variants, including Delta.
Virus antibodies are no match for Delta variant, study shows
Quebec’s Minister of Health and Social Services Christian Dubé made it clear that the rollout of the vaccine passport will not happen until all eligible Quebecers will have had a chance to receive two doses of the vaccine, which is estimated to happen around Sept. 1.
In New Zealand, the communist government will be “chasing out people” who are “hesitant” to take the coronavirus vaccine. The country’s Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins declared that the govennment will be actively hunting those who have yet not “come forward” on their own.
